Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marched into the Capitol at Hartford last week to be received by the General Assembly and sworn in for his third term as Governor. An hour later he marched out again, still unsworn. Deadlocked between Republicans and Democrats with three Socialists holding the balance, the Senate continued to take ballot after futile ballot to elect a clerk. Governor Cross went ahead with his Inaugural Ball that night, was sworn in late next day after the Socialists had swung to the Republicans on the 110th ballot...
...rosa expenditures by France and Germany, if each be found to have spent as much as the other charged, would pay a good part of Europe's War Debt. Neutral guessers figured the monster slush-funds around $50,000,000. Thus each ballot cost perhaps...
Thirteen Harvard alumni were nominated yesterday to fill the five vacancies on the Board of Overseers that will occur this June. The candidates were selected by the Committee on Nominations of the Harvard Alumni Association, and the election will take place in the spring by postal ballot...
...commenting on the ballot Charles L. Whipple '35, spokesman of the National Student League, called the poll "silly since it implies an issue of pacifism impossible in a government pledged to capitalism." Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, president of the Debating Council, was hopeful that the poll would actively arouse undergraduate opinion and discussion on pacifism, a subject hitherto regarded almost in the light of fanaticism...
...Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit...